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Trump to meet with Syrian president on Monday, White House says

4 Nov 2025

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump plans to meet with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House on Monday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday at a press briefing. Since seizing power from Bashar al-Assad last December, Sharaa has made a series of foreign trips as his transitional government seeks to re-establish Syria’s …

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Global companies push for regulation on plastics reduction, report shows

4 Nov 2025

LONDON (Reuters) -Global food and packaging companies, including Nestle, PepsiCo and Unilever have vowed to collaborate on cutting plastic use and push for regulation after U.N. talks in August collapsed, a report published on Tuesday showed. The failure to reach a deal at U.N. talks in Geneva dimmed hopes of tackling a key source of …

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Nigeria’s Tuggar to Trump: state-backed religious persecution impossible under constitution

4 Nov 2025

By Friederike Heine BERLIN (Reuters) – Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar said on Tuesday that state involvement in religious persecution was “impossible” in Nigeria under the country’s laws and constitution. He was responding to a question about U.S. President Donald Trump’s warning of possible “fast” military action in Nigeria if it fails to crack down …

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Victor Conte, founder of BALCO lab at centre of steroid scandal, dead at 75

4 Nov 2025

(Reuters) -Victor Conte, the convicted owner of the now-defunct BALCO laboratory and seminal figure at the centre of a global steroid scandal that included high-profile athletes such as baseball home run king Barry Bonds, has died at the age of 75. Conte, who spent four months in prison and four months home detention after pleading …

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Lula says Brazil will seek independent probe into ‘disastrous’ Rio police raid

4 Nov 2025

BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Tuesday his government will push for an independent probe into a police raid last week in Rio de Janeiro that killed 121 people, including four police officers. “It’s important to see under what conditions it happened,” he told reporters in Belem ahead of …

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Erdogan ally floats releasing jailed pro-Kurdish leader Demirtas

4 Nov 2025

By Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish nationalist leader Devlet Bahceli said on Tuesday it “would be beneficial” to release from prison former pro-Kurdish party leader Selahattin Demirtas, in a rare signal of support by an influential figure long hostile to Kurdish political demands. The surprise comment before reporters outside parliament came a year after Bahceli …

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Iraq can disarm factions only when the US withdraws, prime minister says

4 Nov 2025

By Timour Azhari and Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Iraq has pledged to bring all weapons under the control of the state, but that will not work so long as there is a U.S.-led coalition in the country that some Iraqi factions view as an occupying force, the prime minister said on Monday. Prime Minister Mohammed …

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Peru breaks off diplomatic relations with Mexico after ex-PM flees to Mexican embassy

4 Nov 2025

By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) -Peru has decided to break off diplomatic relations with Mexico, the Andean nation’s foreign minister said on Monday, after Peru’s former prime minister holed up in the Mexican embassy in the country to request asylum. Foreign Minister Hugo de Zela told journalists that Peruvian officials learned earlier in the day …

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Mexico authorities kill 13 in face-off in cartel-plagued state

4 Nov 2025

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Authorities in Mexico’s Pacific Sinaloa state were attacked by an armed group after midday on Monday, with the incident leaving 13 of the attackers dead, Security Minister Omar Garcia Harfuch said. Garcia Harfuch added that four people had been detained and that authorities had freed nine people who had been kidnapped. The …

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